Duo That Defrauded Apple Out of 5,000 iPhones With Repair Scheme Will Spend Up to 20 Years in Prison

Two Maryland residents that tried to defraud Apple out of 5,000 iPhones worth millions of dollars were today found guilty of mail fraud. Chinese nationals Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue masterminded a scheme to get Apple to exchange genuine iPhones for counterfeit iPhones sent in for repair. Between May 2017 and September 2019, Sun and […]

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Sonic Origins’ preorder and DLC scheme is disrespectful to fans

Source: Sega Sonic’s riding high. He just had an awesome movie (go see Sonic the Hedgehog 2!) thanks to Paramount taking good care of the property, and at first blush, it seemed like Sega was set to do something respectable as well with Sonic Origins, a collection of the original mainline Sonic titles from the […]

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Google examines ransomware scheme that uses fake LinkedIn profiles

Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central Microsoft’s security teams routinely report on bad happenings going on in the cybercriminal world, including when such happenings affect the competition. But this time around, it’s Google highlighting how Microsoft’s services and products are being used by bad guys for bad purposes. Google released a report exposing the operations […]

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Squirrelwaffle nearly triumphs in Microsoft Exchange Server scam scheme

An organization almost fell victim to an attack campaign that used Squirrelwaffle malware together with exploits to ProxyLogon and Proxy Shell to target a Microsoft Exchange Server. Sophos researchers looked into the attack and broke down the methods of the malicious actors that went after the unnamed victim organization. Despite its funny name, Squirrelwaffle is […]

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